Fire-kindler



(No Model.) J H. FRENCH,

FIRE KINDLER. 1

Patented Jan. 9, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

JAMES H. FRENCH,OF WILLIMANTIC, CONNECTICUT.

FIRE-KINDLER.

SPEQIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,298, dated January9, 1883.

Application filed September 7, 1882. (Numerical) i To all whom tt mayconcern:

Be it known that I, JAMES H. FRENCH, of YVillimantic, in the county ofWindham and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Fire- Kindlers and Means for Protecting the Same; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and-use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawing, which t'orms'a part of this specification.

My presentinvention is in the nature of an improvement upon the packagefor fire-kindiers made by the process secured to me in Letters Patentot' the United States No. 243,240, dated June2l 1881; and it consists inthe new and improved package herein described.

. The oil-soaked pieces 0t wood or similar material are wrapped in anysuitable wrapperor packed iua box and securely fastened. The package soformed is then varnished with or dipped into a solution of resin inturpentine, or petroleum, or in a kindred oil. This varnish is made bydissolving the resin in the heated oil, as much resin being put into theAny oil will answer the purpose that will, when heated, dissolve theresin, and that will, in addition, keep the resulting solution flexiblewhen cool and not liable to become hard and crack. The mode ofapplication of this varnish to the wrapper and ot'both tothe bundle ofoil-soaked pieces of wood may of course be varied without departing frommy invention-as, for instance, by applying the varnish to the wrapperbefore the wrapper is applied to the bundle of wood. In this case thevarnish may heapplied to the wrapping material in sheets, and suchcoated sheets used as they are wanted to form the package hereindescribed, the flexible characterofthe coating enabling the sheets to beapplied as wrappers to the packages withpervious to the volatile gasesarising from the saturated wood; and, again, the whole coated wrapper,when removed, may be used to assist in the kindling.

The accompanying drawing represents a firekindler package embodying mypresent inven tion. The package there shown has two wrappers, which arerepresented as partly torn away, each of which wrappers is varnishedwith the resin solution hereinbefore described, and which is indicatedby the shading-lines on the outer surface of each wrapp r. I prefer toduplicate the wrapper, as thus shown in the drawing; but suchduplication is not essential.

I disclaim what has been secured to me in Letters Patent granted me June21, 1881, and what I have claimed in pending applications filed May 11,1882, and September 7, 1882.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'- As anarticle of manufacture, a package of wood or other suitablematerialsaturated with an inflammable oil, and ha-ving'a. wrapper, asdescribed, said wrapper being coated with a solutionof resin inturpentine, petroleum, or a kindred oil, substantially as and for thepurposes set forth.

, JAMES H. FRENCH.

